What might you get if you paired a handful of documentary filmmakers with expert web developers and told them they had 36 hours to re-invent the documentary for the web?

It’s no small task, obviously, but it’s a question we’re going to pose in August when we host our first POV Hackathon, which we’re announcing… right now!

Now all we need are some documentary filmmakers with a digital vision.

Is that you? Head over to the POV Hackathon page at pbs.org/pov/hackathon to get more information. (Online applications are due Friday, June 29, 2012 at 5 PM Eastern Time.)

Note: The hackathon weekend will take place from August 11 to 12, 2012, a Saturday morning to Sunday evening in Brooklyn, New York. Before applying, please consider that POV will not be paying travel, accommodations or expenses.

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Adnaan Wasey

Adnaan Wasey heads POV Digital, the Webby Award-winning department of the long-running PBS documentary series POV. Follow him on Twitter @adnaanwasey, Google+ or LinkedIn. Five documentaries he's into (today): 1. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 2. Hoop Dreams 3. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters 4. Sweetgrass 5. Last Train Home

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